Relationship between plasma uridine and urinary urea excretion

Metabolism: Clinical and Experimental

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 441-445

  Ka, Tuneyoshi ^a   Inokuchi, Taku ^a   Tamada, Daisuke ^a   Suda, Michio ^a   Tsutsumi, Zenta ^a   Okuda, Chihiro ^a   Yamamoto, Asako ^a   Takahashi, Sumio ^a   Moriwaki, Yuji ^a   Yamamoto, Tetsuya ^a  

^a HYOGO COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PURINE; UREA; URIC ACID; URIDINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD SAMPLING; FOOD INTAKE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; URIC ACID URINE LEVEL; URINALYSIS; URINARY EXCRETION;

ADULT; CREATININE; DIET; DIETARY CARBOHYDRATES; DIETARY FATS; DIETARY PROTEINS; GOUT; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; INSULIN RESISTANCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; UREA; URIC ACID; URIDINE;

EID: 76249101101     PISSN: 00260495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.metabol.2009.07.032     Document Type: Article

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